Best Theatres In Israel: A Guide To The Top Venues in Tel Aviv, Haifra, Jaffa, and More!

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Check out our list of some of the top venues to check out when visiting Israel below - including English Language, Hebrew, and even Yiddish theatre options for plays, musicals, concerts, and more.

The Cameri Theatre

The Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv won the 2005 Israel Prize. The Cameri Theater, the Tel Aviv Municipal Theater founded in 1944, is one of the two leading theaters in Israel. Each year, the Cameri brings 13 to 14 new plays to 1,100,000 viewers in Tel Aviv and throughout Israel, some 2,300 plays a year. To date, the Cameri has staged about 600 plays. The theater's cast consists of 80 actors and actors from the best stage performers in Israel, and its performances are performed by well-known directors from Israel and abroad, five of whom have won the Israel Prize for their contribution to the art of theater in Israel.

For tickets and more visit http://www.cameri.co.il/

The Gesher Theatre

The Gesher Theater, one of the most important and productive theater houses in Israel, is located in the Noga cultural complex in Jaffa. The Gesher Theater began in 1990, as a group of young artists who immigrated from Moscow. The theater was established with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Jewish Agency, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, the Tel Aviv Foundation for Development and the Zionist Forum. The first play in April 1991 was an innovative adaptation of Tom Stoppard's play, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern die. The play was performed in the basement auditorium of the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv and was received with loud applause. The art establishment and the theater critics also received the production with great enthusiasm. Much has been written about boldness, freshness and talent, about a new language and artistic endeavor that has never been seen before, on the stages of Israel.

Gesher was an original and unique repertoire theater that was initially bilingual. The cast includes: Israel (Sasha) Demidov, Evgenia Dodina, Natasha Manor, Igor Mirkorovov, Lilian Roth, Boris Ahanov, Yevgeni Trelitzky and others, alternating plays in Hebrew and Russian. Today, all the plays in the Gesher Theater are presented in Hebrew, but they are accompanied by Russian translation, out of recognition of the importance of Russian speaking audiences in Israel.

For tickets and more visit http://www.gesher-theatre.co.il/

The Arab-Hebrew Theater

For more than fifteen years, the Jaffa Theater has created a unique theatrical language that makes use of the challenging space and rich fabric of life in Jaffa.

The Jaffa Theater is a stage of theater and art for an intercultural encounter that encourages mutual acquaintance and bringing together Hebrew, Arab and Middle Eastern culture, mutual respect and faith in a path of reconciliation and peace. The theater serves as a hostel for artists and performers, Arabs and Jews, for joint creation and for dealing with questions of society, identity and place in a variety of artistic styles.

The Jaffa Theater is an exceptional institution in the Israeli theater scene in terms of its social involvement and style.

For tickets and more visit http://www.arab-hebrew-theatre.org.il/

The Haifa Theatre

At the heart of the extensive cultural activity in the city of Haifa, which is a metropolis of cultural events and quality, has for many years stood the first urban theater in Israel - the Haifa Theater.

The Haifa Theater was founded in 1961, at the initiative of the then mayor of Haifa, Abba Hushi, with the support of the city council. The Haifa Theater was the first creative urban theater in Israel, and the first to establish a marketing system of subscription plants, in order to bring the city's residents closer to theatrical creation and to expand the cultural circle of the city.

Since then, the Haifa Theater has been a creative theater that encourages theatrical activity in all its forms. The Haifa Theater is a home and a springboard for Israeli playwrights and creators, encourages original plays and accompanies creators at the beginning of their careers. Hanoch Levin, Hillel Mittelpunkt, Yehoshua Sobol, AB Yehoshua, Yosef Bar Yosef, Danny Horowitz and others began their professional careers here.

For tickets and more visit https://www.ht1.co.il/

Khan Theater

The Khan Theater is the leading repertory-creator theater in Jerusalem and is considered by many to be the best theater in Israel, and its performances are praised by both the audience and the critics.

The theater receives special recognition and appreciation, and prestigious prizes, and serves as a central cultural anchor in Jerusalem.

At the heart of the artistic endeavor is the Khan's permanent ensemble of actors, which is a well-formed, quality theater ensemble.

For tickets and more visit https://khan.co.il/

Yiddishpiel Theatre

Yiddish lives once again on our stage, expressing the wisdom of those who are no longer with us. "In a world where conscience and compassion have sunk to new depths, Yiddish has not died, Yiddish has become the soul" (Haim Hefer).

Yiddishpiel - The Yiddish Theater in Israel - is the only Yiddish theater in Israel!

Yiddishpiel was established in 1987 with the mission of restoring to Yiddish, the language that had almost disappeared, its charm, its popularity, and its glory, and to make it the focus of a rich and significant culture that is an important foundation stone in the history of the Jewish nation.

Yiddishpiel was founded by its Artistic Director Shmuel Atzmon-Wircer, in response to a vital need to re-establish the lost honor of the Yiddish language and its culture, and to revive it. His mission, that at first looked impossible, was not well received and fell on deaf ears, but behind him stood first-class social, financial and artistic public figures, from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, headed by the then Mayor Shlomo Lahat (Tchitch), an enthusiastic supporter of this idea. All these made the dream of Shmuel Atzmon and his troupe of actors a reality. They succeeded in reviving and preserving a cultural and historical asset and brought us to the present day with more than 25 years of diverse activity by our theater.

More than 100 new productions have been staged by the Yiddishpiel Theater until today with performances throughout Israel. The theater also earned international recognition for its achievements, as a result of its steady participation in dozens of international festivals worldwide and winning a great number of international prizes.

For tickets and more visit http://www.yiddishpiel.co.il/